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Examples Of Sadness In The Great Gatsby

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Cami Brady
American Literature
Ms. Gibbs
17 November 2016 Sadness Expressed In Our Lives
Sadness is something that can happen to anyone and about anything. Sadness can really affect people’s lives. In “The Great Gatsby” there was sadness when Gatsby wanted Daisy to be with him again but she was still married to Tom and she was afraid to say she never loved Tom. Gatsby was also sad that Daisy wasn’t telling Tom she never loved him.George Wilson was also feeling sadness when Myrtle died because that was his wife. In “anyone lived in a pretty how town” the character no one was feeling sadness when anyone died because she loved him. F. Scott Fitzgerald, author of The Great Gatsby and E.E. Cummings, author of “anyone …show more content…

Cummings made the poem kind of a sad poem. There didn’t seem to be a lot of places in the poem where there was happy words. One of the quotes from the poem “one day anyone died I guess” (Cummings ln26) that caused sadness because it just talked about how anyone dies. Another quote from the poem was “women and men(both little and small )cared for anyone not at all.” (Cummings ln 6). That showed sadness by nobody caring when he died. In “The Great Gatsby” the tone is that F. Scott Fitzgerald made the story have good things happen but most of them led to not so good things happening. One thing that happened was that Gatsby started to have feelings for Daisy again but she was married to Tom. it was very upsetting because she loved him too and wanted to be in a relationship again like they were 5 years ago. Like when Gatsby said to Tom “your wife doesn’t love you” (Fitzgerald 130) he told Tom for Daisy and tried to get Daisy to say it too. Tom was always abusive towards Daisy but he was also abusive towards Myrtle too.. Like when Nick said”Making a short deft moment, Tom Buchanan broke her nose with his open hand.” That’s very sad because she didn’t really deserve to be hit like

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